Amazon is getting set to drop about a billion and a half dollars beefing up its worldwide air cargo hub at the airport in Hebron, Kentucky, South of Cincinnati. According to cnet.com, it will create 2700 new full and part time jobs. This should send shockwaves through the shipping and fulfillment sector! Amazon already is flying 16 leased Prime Air planes, and will continue to add until their fleet numbers 40. The Hebron hub will load, unload, and sort packages, and has the potential to cut into UPS and FedEx. Right now, Amazon says it’s mainly interested in fulfilling its own shipping needs. The project will take 5-7 years to be up to full speed.
Venturebeat.com reports that the EU has made a deal that will end all roaming charges for consumers across the entire continent. The carriers objected strenuously to this plan when originally presented, but EU negotiators have worked out an agreement on sharing carrier costs and a gradual phase out of ALL caps on data usage. Now, if we could only get that in the US!
It’s been rumored for a couple of months now, and today Google dropped Purchases on Google. According to TechCrunch.com, you’ll see a ‘buy’ button in some of the promoted mobile search results. When it’s clicked, you jump to a page where you can buy the advertised product. Unlike Amazon Marketplace, Google just hosts the pages…the actual fulfillment will be handled by the merchants running the ad. Right now, there are over a dozen retail partners powering Purchases by Google, but expect many others to join in by year’s end.
A new study from Pew Research and Knight Foundation says Facebook and Twitter users spanning all demographics are increasingly using the social networks as news sources, albeit for different content on each platform. Niemanlab.org reports that 63% of both Twitter and Facebookers get their news from the social nets. That’s up from 52% of Twitter users 2 years ago and 47% of Facebook users. Nearly double the Twitter users follow breaking news…59% as opposed to 31% of Facebook users. Now 10% of American adults get news on Twitter, and about 40% get news from Facebook.
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